Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium (Zwickau)
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| type of school | high school |
| place | Zwickau |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 43 '44 " N , 12 ° 29' 7" E |
| Website | www.kkg-zwickau.de |
The Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium (KKG) Zwickau is a state gymnasium run by the city. The training leads to the Abitur in eight years (grades 5 to 12) .
location
The KKG is located on Lassallestrasse not far from the city center at the beginning of the northern suburb. Crimmitschauer Straße runs directly on the west side , where the large Zwickau main cemetery park joins on the other side of the street. Immediately north of the building complex is the Zwickau Pestalozzi School, which is characterized by the Bauhaus architecture . Further north, the August Horch Museum in the former Audi factory and the former Horch factory are in the immediate vicinity .
history
Royal Saxon Teachers' College
The representative building was built from 1909 to 1912 according to plans by the building councilor Paul Kemlein and the building officer assigned to him, Dr. Kramer was built as a royal Saxon teachers' seminar in an objectified Art Nouveau style. At the same time, it is the actual root of the former Zwickau University of Education , which was wound up after the accession of the new federal states to the Federal Republic of Germany and affiliated to the then TU Chemnitz-Zwickau .
The building opened with a dignified ceremony in April 1912. The state coat of arms of Saxony with the motto Providentiae Memor - (Mindful of Providence) of the Saxon royal family above the portal testifies to the appreciation of the royal state government in Dresden for the traditional educational efforts of the district administration Zwickau . The aim of the facility was the training and further education of trainee teachers and teachers for the Royal Saxon Schools.
German high school
As a result of the revolution after the First World War , the requirement profile changed abruptly. At the time of the Weimar Republic there was a great need to train young people for the Saxon universities. That is why in 1922 this institution was officially awarded the university entrance qualification. For the first time, the school leaving examination (Abitur) was taken for access to university educational institutions. In the following years, therefore, the name of the house was changed to Deutsche Oberschule (DOS). In addition to the linguistic (Latin, English, French) and scientific training, emphasis was also placed on an artistic education in the subjects of drawing and music. The high school had a powerful school orchestra. Around a quarter of the students were already girls at that time.
After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the educational institution was converted into a state German high school for boys with an additional so-called advanced train, in which the Abitur could be achieved in six instead of eight years. Girls were also accepted into the advanced classes. In addition to the traditional training profile, folk teaching objectives were also taught from now on; Heroes commemorations were staged. When the number of wounded soldiers rose sharply in the course of the Second World War and schools were used as auxiliary hospitals, from 1942 all courses were outsourced to the neighboring Pestalozzi School and the inner-city high schools. The building on what was then Lothringer Strasse was particularly suitable as a military hospital due to its generous room structure, the boarding school kitchen and the large dining room. Even former teachers and students came back to their old place of work with their war wounds. After that, only the east wing with the boarding rooms on Seminarstraße was available for school purposes. When those born in 1927 and 1928 were called up to serve as Air Force volunteers in Berlin, the number of students had decreased significantly from mid-1943 onwards. Two of the air force helpers were killed in the battle for Berlin , a third drowned. In 1944 an aerial bomb caused damage, but the basic substance of the building survived the Second World War almost unscathed. After the war the misappropriation of the facility was partially continued. Until 1948, the Soviet military authorities and the district school authority in Zwickau-Südwestsachsen were housed here.
Extended high school "Käthe Kollwitz"
As early as 1945 the new beginning began in the premises of the neighboring Pestalozzi School with the parallel establishment of the Oberschule Nord , which was renamed the Käthe-Kollwitz-Schule a year later . In 1950 the facility already had 250 students. Within a decade the number of students grew to 600 boys and girls. In 1960 this became the Extended High School (EOS) Käthe Kollwitz . Access to higher education in the GDR not only depended on student performance, but also to a particular degree on social background. Worker's children or children of committed SED comrades had priority.
As early as 1976, the EOS participated in the project of the associated UNESCO project schools , whereby from 1982 a limit of 300 students in fourteen eleventh and twelfth Abitur classes was enforced. Building on the training at the polytechnic high schools (POS) in the GDR, which ended with the tenth grade, the two-year Abitur training was introduced in grades 11 and 12. During the training, the artistic and musical tradition was taken up again.
Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium
In 1992 the educational institution was converted into a grammar school in accordance with the multi-tier school system of the Federal Republic. The number of students rose to over 900, who were taught by 57 teachers. In 2001, the Abitur training was concentrated in the city of Zwickau due to demographic change and initially the Pestalozzigymnasium and in 2003/2004 the Georgengymnasium were attached to the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium. As a result, 84 teachers taught around 1000 students. Currently, 54 teachers teach 703 students, who have 71 newly designed classrooms. On the second educational path, adults can obtain the general university entrance qualification in the evening grammar school, the qualification is recognized throughout the EU.
Since 1990, the inner and outer building fabric has been gradually renovated with funding from the federal government, the Free State of Saxony and the city of Zwickau. The gymnasium includes an auditorium, library, shop, dining room, gym and a 3-field gym.
In 2014, the high school was awarded the Saxon Citizens' Prize for the series of events School in Dialogue .
Well-known graduates (selection)
- Peter Brückner (1922–1982), social scientist
- Annett Illig (* 1968), soprano
- Helmar Meinel (* 1928), journalist and satirist
- Wolfgang Pilz, physician, doctor, professor
- Werner Schulz (* 1950), politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens )
- Regina Thoss (* 1946), pop singer
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Pilz: 75 years of Abitur training , flyer for the meeting of former students on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary on October 4, 1997
- ↑ School: These are ... ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kkg-zwickau.org
- ↑ Chronicle of the Käthe-Kollwitz Gymnasium Zwickau ( memento of the original from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
